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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 244 (Thursday, December 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 103810-103811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-30276]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 4644-017]

GR Catalyst Two, LLC; Notice of Application Tendered for Filing 
With the Commission and Soliciting Additional Study Requests and 
Establishing Procedural Schedule for Relicensing and a Deadline for 
Submission of Final Amendments

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection.
    a. Type of Application: New Major License.
    b. Project No.: 4644-017.
    c. Date filed: December 2, 2024.\1\
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    \1\ The Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure provide 
that if a deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or other 
day when the Commission is closed for business, the deadline does 
not end until the close of business on the next business day. 18 CFR 
385.2007(a)(2). Because the deadline for filing a license 
application fell on a Saturday (i.e., November 30, 2024), the 
deadline was extended until the close of business on Monday, 
December 2, 2024.
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    d. Applicant: GR Catalyst Two, LLC (GR Catalyst).
    e. Name of Project: Dahowa Hydroelectric Project (Dahowa Project or 
project).
    f. Location: On the Battenkill River in Washington County, New 
York.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    h. Applicant Contact: Katharine D. Nicholson, Chief Financial 
Officer, Gravity Renewables, Inc., P.O. Box 7580, Boulder, CO 80306, 
Phone: (303) 615-3105, Email: [email protected]; Celeste Fay, 
Director of Regulatory Affairs, Gravity Renewables, Inc, 5 Dartmouth 
Drive, Suite 104, Auburn, NH 03032, Phone: (413) 262-9466, Email: 
[email protected].
    i. FERC Contact: Claire Rozdilski at (202) 502-8259, or 
[email protected].
    j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies 
with jurisdiction and/or special expertise with respect to 
environmental issues that wish to cooperate in the preparation of the 
environmental document should follow the instructions for filing such 
requests described in item l below. Cooperating agencies should note 
the Commission's policy that agencies that cooperate in the preparation 
of the environmental document cannot also intervene. See 94 FERC ] 
61,076 (2001).
    k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 CFR of the Commission's 
regulations, if any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person believes 
that an additional scientific study should be conducted in order to 
form an adequate factual basis for a complete analysis of the 
application on its merit, the resource agency, Indian Tribe, or person 
must file a request for a study with the Commission not later than 60 
days from the date of filing of the application, and serve a copy of 
the request on the applicant.
    l. Deadline for filing additional study requests and requests for 
cooperating agency status: January 31, 2025.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
additional study requests and requests for cooperating agency status 
using the Commission's eFiling system at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you may submit a paper copy. 
Submissions

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sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 
Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First 
Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 
other carrier must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Secretary, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852. All filings must clearly identify the project name and 
docket number on the first page: Dahowa Hydroelectric Project (P-4644-
017).
    m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this 
time.
    n. The Dahowa Project consists of the following existing 
facilities: (1) a 163-foot-long concrete ogee dam that varies from 3 to 
15 feet in height (averaging 6 feet high) with a crest elevation of 235 
feet \2\ and fitted with 5-foot-high timber flashboards; (2) a 228-
foot-long, 8-foot-high concrete headrace wall with a crest elevation of 
237 feet and 3-foot-high timber flashboards; (3) an impoundment with a 
surface area of approximately 2.7 acres, a storage capacity of 
approximately 12.5 acre-feet, and a normal water surface elevation of 
240.0 feet; (4) an intake with a trashrack with 2.5-inch clear bar 
spacing; (5) a circular 142-foot-deep concrete powerhouse with an 
exterior diameter of approximately 44 feet and containing one vertical 
Kaplan turbine-generator unit with a capacity of 10.5 megawatts; (6) an 
underground tailrace tunnel; (7) a 5/34.5-kilovolt (kV) step-up 
transformer; (8) a substation; (9) a 690-foot-long 34.5-kV transmission 
line; and (10) appurtenant facilities.
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    \2\ All elevation values reported herein reference the National 
Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
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    The current Commission-approved recreation management plan requires 
the licensee to maintain a public fishing area upstream of the dam on 
the east side of the impoundment. The area consists of a 700-foot-long 
access trail, a parking area, and signage. The recreation management 
plan also requires the licensee to provide access to a conservation and 
preservation area located on the west side of the impoundment and 
maintain a parking area, signage, an approximately 1,300-foot-long 
access trail loop, and overlook walkway structures for viewing 
Dionondahowa (Dahowa) Falls.
    The Dahowa Project operates in a run-of-river mode. There is no 
available usable storage behind the dam. Article 402 of the current 
license requires a minimum flow release of 40 cubic feet per second 
(cfs) over the flashboards between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. from the 
third Saturday in May through Labor Day weekend and from sunrise to 
sunset on weekends and holidays from Labor Day weekend through November 
30 to provide flows over Dahowa Falls, a natural waterfall with an 
approximate height of 70 feet, to enhance aesthetic resources. At all 
other times, a minimum flow release of 25 cfs over the flashboards is 
required for water quality purposes and for the protection of flow-
dependent resources. GR Catalyst is not proposing any modifications to 
existing project facilities or changes to the operation of the project.
    The Dahowa Project has an annual generation of approximately 33,500 
megawatt-hours.
    o. A copy of the application can be viewed on the Commission's 
website at http://www.ferc.gov, using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the 
docket number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number 
field, to access the document (P-4644). For assistance, contact FERC at 
[email protected], or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or (202) 
502-8659 (TTY).
    You may also register online at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.
    The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports 
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission 
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners, 
environmental justice communities, Tribal members and others, access 
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For 
public inquiries and assistance with making filings such as 
interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is 
encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected].
    p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will 
be processed according to the following preliminary schedule. Revisions 
to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

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                Milestone                           Target date
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Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)..  February 2025.
Request Additional Information..........  February 2025.
Issue Acceptance Letter.................  June 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments...  July 2025.
Issue Scoping Document 2 (if necessary).  September 2025.
Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental   September 2025.
 Analysis.
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    Final amendments to the application must be filed with the 
Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice 
of ready for environmental analysis.

    Dated: December 13, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-30276 Filed 12-18-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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